Ukraine struck three of Yandex’s six data centers, in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. Operations stopped at the Sasovo and Vladimir facilities, while several modules in Kaluga were knocked out. Yandex services and other websites experienced outages, including for users abroad. The company restored some services but said features remained unavailable, and arranged to move customer data and services to other cloud providers’ data centers.

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Russian technology company Yandex says its services are gradually recovering after an outage. Access to search, its Alisa assistant, mail, maps and taxi services is being restored, though some functions remain unavailable and the timeline for fully restoring equipment is unclear. Yandex said customer account records were unaffected and that it arranged expedited transfers of client data and services to cloud providers. It reported drone attacks damaging or halting data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir between October 8 and 11.

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Ukrainian defense company Fire Point mocked Yandex on X after the Russian tech company reported damage to another data center, disrupting its financial services. The report follows a series of drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia that have disrupted services.

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Opposition parties and supporters marched in New Delhi to protest a voter-roll revision and demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. They allege the purge favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party; the Election Commission denies wrongdoing.

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An unexploded munition detonated during a school trip in northern Israel, killing a 15-year-old and injuring about 20 people. The army is investigating whether it came from Hezbollah or Israeli forces, as fighting has recently taken place near the Lebanon border.

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A teenager was killed in an explosion near the Lebanon border during an Israeli school trip. The IDF believes an unexploded munition caused the blast.

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With France’s presidential election six months away, a coalition of centre-left parties has chosen EU lawmaker Raphaël Glucksmann as its candidate. He says he represents a break with Macronism and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far left, and can defeat the far right, though polls suggest he would lose a second-round runoff to Marine Le Pen.

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Raphaël Glucksmann clearly won a primary held Sunday by France’s opposition Socialists and their centre-left allies. The 46-year-old European Parliament member and founder of Place Publique now figures prominently in the campaign for France’s presidency, with the election scheduled for April.

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After winning the Socialist party’s centre-left primary and becoming its social-democratic presidential candidate, French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann called on the centre left to unite against Marine Le Pen’s far right in the 2027 election. He said the campaign would be exceptionally brutal and argued that the left must believe it can win.

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Raphaël Glucksmann won over 66% in the social-democratic left’s primary ahead of France’s 2027 presidential election. Soon afterward on Sunday evening, flour was thrown at the French politician and European Parliament member outside a Paris bar.

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Saudi Arabia extended the closure of Riyadh’s international airport on Monday after the Saudi-led coalition said it was responding to Houthi drone and missile attacks. Another attack on Saturday killed 13 people and injured more than 300. The disruption is among the worst to hit Saudi aviation in years and marks a significant escalation in the war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

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Saudi Arabia has extended the closure of Riyadh airport following deadly attacks.

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Pope Leo has continued with his busy schedule a day after saying he would undergo lung surgery this week. A routine health check detected a small lung nodule.

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Pope Leo XIV is set to undergo surgery this week to remove a localized lung nodule detected at a very early stage. It is the first medical event of his 17-month papacy.

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The Vatican says Pope Leo will be admitted to hospital on Tuesday. He said Sunday that doctors had found a nodule on his lung.

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The Vatican press office says doctors expect Pope Leo XIV to need about a week to recover, which could allow him to depart for his planned Latin America visit on 6 November.

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Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to have surgery this week to remove a lung nodule, a small area of dense tissue inside the lung.

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Pope Leo is reportedly set to enter a Rome hospital on Tuesday. He had said doctors found a localized lung nodule that needs to be removed.

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Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full for Muse Code subscribers, with Wonder also available through the Meta Model API. The company says internal benchmark tests show the models can rival leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta plans to use Wonder to power its Muse agent but has not given a timeline.

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Poland’s interior ministry said Sunday that a man in his 60s was detained on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said the suspect was identified through online posts and arrested in Lower Silesia. Police are searching his home and examining his contacts.

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Google’s second Fitbit tracker of 2026, the Edge, offers Charge 6 users a more refined option. It has a 1.34-inch OLED touchscreen, an aluminum frame and more health sensors than the Air. It works with Android phones and iPhones and lasts about seven days per charge, or around two with always-on display enabled.

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Google has officially unveiled the Fitbit Edge, positioned between the Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5. It has an OLED display 46 percent larger than the Charge 6, health sensors including an ECG, and about a week of battery life. Priced at $179.99, it lacks a microphone, speaker, and NFC payments.

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A major fire in the early hours of Monday destroyed Paris’s oldest covered food market. Traders and residents said the loss of the Enfants Rouges market, a cherished destination for locals and tourists, left them feeling “orphaned.”

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A fire tore through the oldest covered food market in Paris’s Marais district, devastating traders. An investigation is under way, and the market could remain closed for months.

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A fire ravaged the 17th-century Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris’s Marais district. Central Paris mayor Ariel Weil said it was “totally destroyed,” though flames did not spread to nearby buildings. More than 150 firefighters and 50 fire trucks responded; the cause is unknown.

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A major overnight blaze struck Paris’s oldest covered food market, and video captures the scene afterward. The market dates back to 1615.

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Paris Fire Brigade images show flames engulfing the Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges in the Marais district during the night of October 12. Founded in 1615, it is Paris’s oldest covered food market and is listed as a historic monument.

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A fire gutted the historic Marché des Enfants-Rouges in central Paris early Monday. Firefighters said the blaze was under control, but the listed market premises had been severely damaged.

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